Quotes About Bewilderment

I drove home in a State of Utter: utterly startled, utterly confused, utterly flummoxed.

Pietrisycamollaviadelrechiotemexity," Sunny said, which you will probably recall means something along the lines of "I must admit I don't have the faintest idea of what is going on." Sunny had now said this particular thing three times over the course of her life, and she was beginning to wonder if this was something she was only going to say more and more as she grew older.

Nobody knows anything at all. We have no idea what is happening. We are all bewildered. Someone may say that they understand something, to ourselves or to others, but they are wrong, or guessing, or making it up.

We must read mysterious literature, and be as bewildered by it as we are by the world, and we should write down our ideas, turning our stories, as if by magic, into literature.

Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.

There's a lot that doesn't make sense

It was a familiar feeling, to be hurrying someplace without really knowing what is going on. When I was a child, this happened all the time, because when you are a child, nothing is your business, and you are constantly being yanked one place or another with no satisfying explanation provided by the adults doing the yanking, and so you soon get used to being in a constant state of bewilderment.

The first rule is about bewilderment," the author said.

Nobody knows anything at all. We have no idea what is happening. We are all bewildered.

A what, now?

I am all astonishment.

Elinor looked at him with greater astonishment than ever. She began to think that he must be in liquor...

As well, she [i.e., Joan of Arc] is the only person ever condemned to death for heresy by the same faith that made her a saint—evidence of the deep bewilderment about women in a church run by men.

the pleasures of literary fiction are the pleasures of orientation; the pleasures of literature are the pleasures of bewilderment.

Good God, Clarence! You look like a bereaved tapeworm.

Wait till you see her. Sort of woman who makes you feel that your hands are the color of a frightful tomato and the size of a billiard table, if you know what I mean.

I'm dashed if I know what's going to happen to me. I am the thingummy of what's-its-name. You look it, said Mike.

We're all alike when we get bustled. We don't know what we're doing, and by the time we've put our hands up and got into shape, why, it's all over, and there you are. Don't you worry yourself, sir.

The mage, Tessera decided finally, felt like someone who had stepped with confidence onto a stair that wasn't there.

Absurdity reigns, and confusion makes it look good.

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I nodded, understanding nothing.

Jesus Christ: A common exclamation indicating surprise, disgust, anger or bewilderment.

Guidance," says Ibn Arabi, "is to be led to bewilderment. Then you will know that the whole affair is bewilderment, that bewilderment is agitation and movement, and movement is life. There is no rest, no death, only existence, nothing of nonexistence."55 So it continues for all eternity. In reality, it is this bewilderment that allows the Sufis to taste already in this world the never-ending bliss of paradise.